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- 14:36, 25 October 2024 COWARD, Laura (hist | edit) [758 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service in WW2== 206068 Sister COWARD, Laura, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was serving in Singapore in 1942. She left Singapore on the SS Kuala, which was sunk by Japanese bombers on February 14, 1942. <blockquote>… not seen by any survivor since first attack on ship. Believed killed by a direct hit on her cabin ...<ref>Pether, M. (2012) SS Kuala Researched Passenger List version 3.3.5 (available from the COFEPOW website)...")
- 14:32, 25 October 2024 COVEY, E (hist | edit) [261 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service in the Boer War== Sister E COVEY served with the South African Constabulary<ref>The National Archives: War Office WO 100/272 QSA Medal Roll for the South African Constabulary, p.52.</ref>. ==References== <references /> Category:Boer War")
- 14:09, 25 October 2024 CORLYON, Thomasina Lissette (hist | edit) [799 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Biography== Thomasina Lissette CORLYON was born in 1874 at Crosshill in Refrewshire<ref name="census">The National Archives: England Census 1881 RG11/3671/4;/1</ref>, although she was baptised in Everton, Lancashire<ref>England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975</ref>. The 1881 Census shows her living with her Mother (shown as a widow) in Everton<ref name="census"/>, but by 1891 she had returned to Scotland<ref>The National Archives: Scotland Census 1891 Eas...")
- 14:00, 25 October 2024 COOPER, Mary (hist | edit) [2,066 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Biography== Mary COOPER trained at the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin from 1935-1939, and enrolled into the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) (QAIMNSR), November 1939. She embarked for service in the Far East 28 September 1941<ref>The British Journal of Nursing, December 1945, p.143</ref>. ==Nursing Service in WW2== 206892 Sister COOPER, Mary, QAIMNSR was serving at the Alexandra Hospital, Singapore. She left Singapore on the SS Tan...")
- 13:50, 25 October 2024 COLE, Mary Cecil Florence Kate (hist | edit) [269 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing service after the Boer War== Appointed Matron in the newly formed Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in 1903<ref>The London Gazette, May 26, 1903, p.3364</ref>. ==References== <references /> Category:QAIMNS Category:Post Boer War")
- 13:46, 19 October 2024 CLEWETT, Catherine Hilda (hist | edit) [831 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service in WW2== 100px|right208176 Sister CLEWETT, Catherine Hilda, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was serving in Singapore in 1942. She left Singapore on the SS Kuala, which was sunk by Japanese bombers on February 14, 1942. <blockquote>… not seen by any survivors after raid on ship …<ref>Pether, M. (2012) <b>SS Kuala Researched Passenger List version 3.3.5</b> (available from the COFEPOW website)</ref>...")
- 13:39, 19 October 2024 CLAYTON, Kate (hist | edit) [1,262 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== The Nursing Record and Hospital World<ref>The Nursing Record and Hospital World (1900); p.478</ref> gave an account of Mrs Kate CLAYTON after she died. Mrs Clayton (neé Collins) trained for two years at the General Hospital, Cheltenham (1880-1882) and subsequently obtained a three year certificate at the Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury. Her appointment as Home Sister at the St Helena Home brought her to London, where she worked until 1895. After obtaining a ce...")
- 10:36, 19 October 2024 CLARIDGE, Sarah Alice (hist | edit) [884 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Sarah Alice CLARIDGE trained as a nurse at the General Hospital, Birmingham, and then joined the Staffordshire Nurses' Insitute, working as a private nurse for two years. She rejoined the General Hospital, Birmingham<ref name="bjn1914">The British Journal of Nursing, October 3, 1914: p260</ref>, and it was from there she joined Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) on July 19, 1900<ref>War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian's A...")
- 09:40, 19 October 2024 CHATFIELD, Mabel Jesson (hist | edit) [5,586 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Biography== rightMabel Jesson Chatfield was born in Quaggerfontein in the Bloemfontein district of South Africa, on June 12, 1875. Her father had emigrated to South Africa and was a farmer. When she was 17 Mabel asked Sister Henrietta Stockdale at Kimberley Hospital if she could be a nurse. She was told she was too young, so she set up a dance school instead. When Sister Henrietta left Kimberley Hospital to set up a private instituti...")
- 09:24, 19 October 2024 CHARMAN, F Mary (hist | edit) [954 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service in WW2== 100px|right206887 Sister Mary CHARMAN, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was serving at the 1st Malaysian General Hospital, Singapore. She left Singapore on the SS Kuala, which was sunk by Japanese bombers on February 14, 1942. <blockquote>... Interned at Padang then Bankinang Women's Camp, Sumatra ...<ref>Moffett, J. Pether, M. & Kenneisan, B. (undated) <b>Sumatra Internees version 1.1.0</b>...")
- 09:17, 19 October 2024 CHEETHAM, Edith Christine (hist | edit) [270 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing service after the Boer War== Appointed Sister in the newly formed Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in 1903<ref>The London Gazette, May 26, 1903, p.3364</ref>. ==References== <references /> Category:QAIMNS Category:Post Boer War")
- 16:30, 13 October 2024 Uniforms Boer War and WW1 (hist | edit) [3,615 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== Often we want to identify nurses by the uniforms they are wearing. Sometimes it is really obvious, but sometimes it is small identification features that lead us to recognise the nursing service, and the era. We are going to use a few examples below to help set out the identification features to look for (as well as things that do not help so much). You are always welcome to send me photographs you need help with. ==Boer War to WW1== Army nurses se...")
- 08:50, 12 October 2024 Annie's Report (hist | edit) [5,278 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Five Months with the Independent Air Force 42 Stationary Hospital, Charmes== I with 9 Sisters and Staff Nurses arrived at Nancy in the early morning of Nov. 1st 1918 for duty at 42 Stationary Hp. We had a thirty-mile drive to the hospital at Charmes through most beautiful scenery by the Moselle River. The Hospital consisted of 16 large Nissen huts with kitchen annexes and Sisters’ Bunk between each two. The Officers Wards, Surgical and Medical, were in a separate co...")
- 15:32, 11 October 2024 PLIMSAUL, Annie (hist | edit) [8,189 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Annie Leonora Plimsaul was born in Norbiton on the 14th August 1876. She was educated at Kingston Hill High School, and Clifton High School for Girls, Bristol. Her father, William Sadler Plimsaul was an architect1. She commenced nurse training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London on the 6th April 1903 completing on the 9th April 19071. She then worked for a short while as a temporary Night Sister at the Seamen’s Hospital, Geenwich1. ==Nursing Service in WW...")
- 15:28, 11 October 2024 Dorothy's Report (hist | edit) [6,553 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Outline of the Life and Work of Sisters at Casualty Clearing Stations in France== Life and work of a Casualty Clearing station takes the Sister out of the ordinary routine of Hospital life in an instant; she is given a charge where the success of the ward must depend upon her own initiative and resource. Before the retreat of March 21st 1918 the Casualty Clearing Stations in the front area had become well established and wonderfully equipped, they might indeed have be...")
- 16:26, 6 October 2024 FOSTER, Dorothy (hist | edit) [5,766 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Dorothy Penrose Foster was one of 7 children and was born in Liskeard, Cornwall on the 20th June 1875<ref name="wo11309">The National Archives: War Office 399 11309</ref>. Her father was a land-owning farmer who was also a local magistrate and church warden<ref>1881 England Census RG11; Piece: 2286; Folio: 71; Page: 22</ref>. She trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London from 1902 to 1905<ref name="wo11309"/>, joining the League of St Bartho...")
- 09:05, 6 October 2024 Royal Red Cross Table (hist | edit) [138,807 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" ! Designation !! Surname !! Forename !! Service !! Service Number !! Award !! Date of Award !! Reference !! Notes |- | Lieutenant Colonel || HODGE || Margaret-Ann || Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps || 554730 || Royal Red Cross || 2022.1.1 || The London Gazette, Supplement No. 1, 1 January 2022, p. N37 || |- | Major || BUCKINGHAM || Tracey Ann || Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps || Q1018429 || Associate Royal Red Cross || 202...")
- 08:58, 6 October 2024 In Memoriam Table (hist | edit) [85,464 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" ! Surname !! Forename !! Status !! Service !! Age !! Died !! Grave or Memorial !! Other Information |- | AIREY || Freda || Sister || QAIMNS || || 12/02/1944 || United Kingdom, Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, Panel 22. Column 1. || Killed at sea on the 12th February 1944, when the SS Khedive Ismail was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean |- | ALLEN || Mary Ann || Staff Nurse || QAIMNS || 35 || 05/01/1920 || United Kingdom, Tyldesley C...") originally created as "In memoriam Table"
- 15:14, 5 October 2024 Alice's Report (hist | edit) [14,447 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Some experiences of work at Casualty Clearing Stations in France at different periods between 1915 and 1919 by a ‘Sister in Charge’.== As one who went to France in the first days of the war I have always felt to the fullest extent the privilege I had of working at Casualty Clearing Stations for two and a half years before Armistice was signed and during the heaviest fighting. I can always remember how gladly I welcomed the order when, in February 1915, I was sent...")
- 10:26, 5 October 2024 DUNCAN, Alice (hist | edit) [7,108 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Biography== Annie came from a large family. Born in Glasgow in 1878 and educated locally, she trained as a nurse at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, qualifying in 1903<ref>United Kingdom and Ireland Nursing Registers, 1898-1969, 1950 p.110</ref>. Her younger sister Jessie also trained as a nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and served in the QAIMNS(R)<ref>The National Archives: War Office 399/ 2403 Duncan, Jessie</ref>. ==Nursing Service in WW1== On mobilisation...")
- 09:49, 5 October 2024 Reports of nurses serving in WW1 (hist | edit) [19,311 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context==")
- 09:01, 5 October 2024 Tippet Medals (hist | edit) [3,774 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== Although we call them tippet ‘medals’ they are really tippet ‘badges’ as they were issued with the uniform and returned when leaving the service (although some nurses were able to retain them, following a long period of service). We have not yet found a definitive archive account of how or why they were introduced. Looking at the first badges and when they were introduced, there are some strong clues to their origin. The first tippet bad...")
- 08:15, 5 October 2024 Identification Features (hist | edit) [767 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context== One of the tasks for both family and military historians is making sense of photographs and pictures. There are a number of identifying features that helps us to work out the era and service of a British Army nurse. The main things to look at are: * Tippets and tippet medals * Uniforms * Medals ==Content== In the following sections there will be a number of photographs and videos, demonstrating the difference in these identifying factors. If you have a tric...")
- 13:55, 29 September 2024 Lilian Robinson's Autograph Book (hist | edit) [5,340 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== Charlotte Lillian Annie ROBINSON completed her nurse training at St George's Hospital, London, in April 1912, and then worked as as a Staff Nurse and as an Assistant Night Sister at St George’s, before leaving to take up private nursing. She applied to join the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in August 1912. Interestingly, her Matron while she was a St George’s was Miss Edith McCall Catherine Anderson RRC, herself...")
- 13:29, 29 September 2024 Preserving Ephemera (hist | edit) [14,067 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== Many families will have a collection of old documents, books, photographs, albums and other ephemera, which while they be not be intrinsically valuable, will have great sentimental value, and will need to be looked after for descendants to appreciate in years to come. Paper documents, books and photographs deteriorate quickly if not kept in ideal conditions, and there are many simple steps that you can take to keep your family ephemera in good order...")
- 13:11, 29 September 2024 Finding Ephemera (hist | edit) [3,346 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== The term ‘ephemera’ covers a wide range of documents including leaflets, tickets, programmes, printed tins and packaging, advertising inserts, posters, newspapers and much more. In terms of nursing history it will also include letters, postcards, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and original official documents. What they have in common is their 'transient' nature. They were produced to be consumed 'at the time', and without much thought to the...")
- 10:29, 28 September 2024 Women's History & the Professionalisation of Nursing (hist | edit) [10,721 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== The birth of Army nursing took place against a backdrop of an emerging professionalisation of nursing, and the debates for the registration of nurses. Army nurses were active in both of these processes. When we look at the history of Army nurses, or explore a member of our family who was an Army nurse, we need to understand these contexts in order to understand and properly contextualise the materials we are using. ==Nursing as a Profession== Early...")
- 09:43, 28 September 2024 Mixing Family and Nursing History (hist | edit) [19,124 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== Family and nursing historians might share the same data sources but will usually have different perspectives. Family historians want to 'fix' the family connections and so might be more interested in what further connections they can establish, or if the data supports connections they have already surmised. Nursing historians want to 'fix' the context in that they want to understand the circumstances of the events and how that might relate to nurses...")
- 07:40, 28 September 2024 Kate Luard's Letters (hist | edit) [5,459 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== <blockquote>"Kate Evelyn Luard was born in 1872, the 10th of thirteen children born to Rev. Bixby Garnham Luard and Clara Isabella Sandford (nee Bramston). Her childhood was spent at Avely Vicarage, Essex and Birch Rectory, near Colchester, Essex. A defining moment in her life was her time spent at Croydon High School for Girls (1887-1890). The headmistress and founder of the school was Dorinda Neligan, a suffragette and campaigner for women’s ri...")
- 18:36, 27 September 2024 Censorship (hist | edit) [6,361 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== <blockquote>Nurses know nursing in a way that no one else does, and yet the reflections you have, though often well meant, are created by others<ref>White, N. (2012) Good Nurse, Bad Nurse: Images of nursing in literature and on screen. (A Leverhulme Residency public talk. Presented on October 2nd, 2012 at the Teviot Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh) [WWW] http://nursingwriter.blogspot.co.uk/p/good-nurse-bad-nurse.html Links to an external si...")
- 09:11, 27 September 2024 The Singapore Ships (hist | edit) [7,322 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== By the 31st of January 1942 all British Empire forces had withdrawn from the Malay peninsula on to Singapore Island. On the 8th of February 1942 Japanese forces landed in the north-west of the island, and within six days they had had advanced as far as the outskirts of Singapore City. At this point the city was under constant air attack. British Army nurses had been stationed at the Alexandra Military Hospital on Singapore Island, and in General Ho...")
- 10:23, 26 September 2024 Ethics in historical research (hist | edit) [2,483 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Context Although the subject matter and sources for historical research differ from that of mainstream health and social care research, there is still a requirement for historians to behave ethically and to follow a recognised code of practice (for example: American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), 2012). icon.png Presentation by Keiron The Vimeo video stream should be clever enough to detect the type of video stream you need for your device. If you do h...")
- 09:50, 25 September 2024 RCN Historical Journals (hist | edit) [2,869 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== The Nursing Record was published from 1888 to 1956, changing its name in 1902 to The British Journal of Nursing. The journal contains a wide range of information about hospitals, wards, staff, patients, illness and diseases, medicine and treatments, hospital equipment and events. As well as articles, letters and obituaries, the journals contain many photographs relating to all aspects of nursing and a wide variety of advertisements. In 2001 the Roya...")
- 14:29, 22 September 2024 Overview of Sources (hist | edit) [8,228 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== <blockquote><i>It is clear even to the most casual observer of the historical profession that research practices are being gradually transformed by the digitisation of archives and primary sources. So many new digital resources are being released—cabinet papers, parliamentary proceedings, sound recordings, photographic collections—that it is difficult to keep up with the riches available. One of the most useful of these developments for modern B...")
- 12:56, 22 September 2024 Boer War Medal Rolls (hist | edit) [7,437 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== The Boer War (South Africa 1899-1901) was important for British military nursing as it was the first major conflict for Britain in which nurses in large numbers had been deployed, and at the end of the war a new nursing service was created, the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), which saw nurses becoming a formed component of the British Army. The war in 1899 was the second war to occur between the Boers and the British....")
- 09:32, 22 September 2024 Victorian Wars Medal Rolls (hist | edit) [5,485 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== In 1881 the Army Nursing Service (ANS) was formed. Nurses wore military uniform and were employed directly to care for military patients<ref>Bett, WR. (1960) <b>A Short History of Nursing</b>. London: Faber and Faber</ref> <ref>Taylor, E (2001) <b>Wartime Nurse: One Hundred Years from the Crimea to Korea 1854-1954</b> London: Robert Hale</ref>. The ANS, although nominally a military formation was not an established part of the Army and did not sit w...")
- 20:28, 30 August 2024 Overview of Medal Rolls (hist | edit) [2,206 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context== Confirming the eligibility for campaign medals was the responsibility of individual units who recorded the details of serving personnel on a medal sheet, which was then forwarded to the War Office. Individual nurses might appear on more than one medal sheet, as each unit they served with might record them. For military nurses these medal rolls provide a definitive source for their participation in any particular campaign, which is why they are such a valuabl...")
- 14:43, 30 August 2024 Researching Army Nurses (hist | edit) [1,556 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Context== Some time ago we ran a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on <i>Researching British Army Nurses</i>. We have brought the material over to the wiki and will update it over time. So do not be surprised if there are comments in the videos and the text which relate to <i>the course</i>. The areas we cover are: {| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto" |- ! Chapter !! Section |- | Medal Rolls || Overview of Medal Rolls |- | || Victorian Wars |- | || The...")
- 20:44, 29 August 2024 Marital Status (hist | edit) [14,791 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== This data field showed the honorific applied to any particular nurse where known. Marital Status was then implied from the honorific. At this time the terms Mrs and Miss were almost exclusively used to denote a married or widowed woman (Mrs) or an unmarried woman (Miss). Although the term Ms had been discussed in the press at this time<ref>Zimmer, B (2009) Ms. <b>The New York Times Magazine</b>. October 23, p.MM16</ref> it was not yet much in use. T...")
- 10:23, 28 August 2024 Place of Birth (hist | edit) [6,414 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ ==Context== In the literature that mentioned nurses in the Boer War they were usually collectively described as coming from the UK. There was no further breakdown so it was not possible to say whether these nurses had a similar distribution geographically to the UK population of the period, or if one or more regions of the UK contributed more than others. Some of the nurses who went to South Africa from the UK were born elsewhere, but there had been no mention...")
- 18:11, 10 August 2024 APPLETON, Kate Gertrude (hist | edit) [777 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Biography== Kate Appleton was born in Aldershot, Hampshire in 1870, the daughter of a retired Army Officer (Lieutenant Colonel, Veterinary Department)<ref>1911 Census For England & Wales RG14 PN5743 RG78PN261 RD93 SD4 ED10 SN388</ref>. She trained as a nurse at ==Nursing Service during the Boer War== ==References== <references /> Category:PCANSR Category:Boer War Sister Title: Miss Forename(s): Kate Gertrude Surname: APPLETON Final Employment Status: Pri...")
- 15:33, 10 August 2024 ANTROBUS, Martha (hist | edit) [336 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service after the Boer War== Staff Nurse Antrobus enlisted in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) on the 21st June 1906, and appears in the Army Lists of 1906<ref>Army List 1906</ref> and 1908<ref>Army List 1908</ref>. ==References== <references /> Category:Post Boer War Category:PCANSR")
- 15:27, 10 August 2024 ANDREWS, Emily Hope (hist | edit) [1,084 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Emily Hope Andrews was born in Stoke Devonport, Hampshire about 1871<ref>1911 Census For England & Wales RG14 PN3713 RG78PN140 RD42 SD4 ED9 SN160</ref>. She trained as a nurse at the Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich<ref name="waroffice">National Archives: War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September</ref>. She enlisted in Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) (PCANSR) on May 4th 1900 an...")
- 15:05, 10 August 2024 ANDREW, Ethel (hist | edit) [762 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Ethel Andrew trained at the Royal Infirmary, Salford. She enlisted in the Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) on May 12th, 1900 with a service number 506<ref>National Archives: War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September</ref>. ==Service during the Boer War== Sister Andrew served at No. 14 Stationary Hospital, Maritzburg<ref>National Archives: WO 100/229 QSA Medal Roll p116 crea...")
- 07:55, 8 August 2024 ANDRÉ, Alice Emily (hist | edit) [766 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing service in the Boer War== Alice Emily André trained at University College Hospital, London. She joined the Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) (PCANSR) on May 4th 1900 and was given the Number 544. She was serving in South Africa on September 30th 1900<ref>War Office: Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) Nominal Roll 30th September 1900</ref>. She sailed for South Africa on the 4th August, 1900<ref>Army Nursing Notes. <b>Nursing...")
- 16:12, 7 August 2024 AMBROSE, May (hist | edit) [437 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing service in the Boer War== May Ambrose appears on the medal roll for No. 11 General Hospital, Kimberley as a Sister in the Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve), with a note that she joined "From No.5 General Hospital on August 24, 1901"<ref>QSA Medal Roll WO p291, created at No.11 General Hospital, Kimberley, dated October 8, 1901</ref>. ==References== <references /> Category:Boer War Category:PCANSR")
- 16:07, 7 August 2024 AMBROSE, Elizabeth (hist | edit) [842 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Biography== Elizabeth Ambrose was born in Wood Green about 1865<ref name="census">England Census 1901 RG13/1105 Connaught Military Hospital, Farnborough</ref>. She trained at the Charing Cross Hospital, London and joined the Princess Christian Army Nursing Service (Reserve) on August 13th 1900<ref>War Office (1900) Nominal Roll of Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve) as at 30th September</ref>. ==Nursing Service in the Boer War== She served in Kimberl...")
- 13:32, 7 August 2024 ALLSOP, Katharine Amelia (hist | edit) [564 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service after the Boer War== Katharine Amelia Allsop appears as a Staff Nurse in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in the Army List 1906<ref>Army List 1906</ref>. She then appears as a Sister until 1913<ref>Army List 1908</ref> <ref>Army List 1909</ref> <ref>Army List 1913</ref>. The 1911 Census lists her serving at the Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Rochester<ref>1911 England and Wales Census, Medway, RG14 PN3926 RD47 SD1 ED41 SN99...")
- 13:22, 7 August 2024 ALLSOPP, Beatrice (hist | edit) [7,646 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ (extracts from an article in <i>Soins</i><ref>Spires KA & Bates, DC (2014) Beatrice Allsop, une infirmière sur le front occidental. <b>Soins</b>, no 786 Juin 2014, 83-87</ref>) ==Biography== Born in Wandsworth (now part of London), Surrey in 1882<ref name="metro">London Metropolitan Archives, Battersea St. Paul's, Register of Baptism, p70/pau item 1</ref>, her father was a bookseller with a shop on the High Street<ref name="metro"/>. She was educated at Stock...")
- 12:47, 7 August 2024 ALLEN, Gertrude Mary (hist | edit) [586 bytes] Keiron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Nursing Service after the Boer War== Gertrude Mary Allen appears as a Staff Nurse in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) on the Army List for 1906<ref>Army List 1906</ref>, and then as a Sister until 1913 <ref>Army List 1908</ref> <ref>Army List 1909</ref> <ref>Army List 1913</ref>. In the 1911 Census she is serving at Tempe (Bloemfontein), South Africa<ref>1911 Census for England and Wales, Tempe, Orange Free State, South Africa, RG14 PN34...")
